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I'm very happy to announce that Shaker moderator Ana Mardoll, who you may even termed as the fabulous author of Ana Mardoll's Ramblings, has became a member of Shakesville like a contributor. Yay! So please say hi making her feel thanks for visiting the primary page!Appreciate joining us, Ana!

Quote of the Day

[Content Note: Guns.]"If we will wet our proverbial pants over .3% in annual investing cuts when we are accumulating trillion dollar annual deficits, then we are done. Place a fork in us. We are finished. We are likely to default eventually which explains why the feds are stockpiling bullets just in case of riots.Inch—National Treasure Sarah Palin, making plenty of sense as always while participating in more totally responsible rhetoric.

Photos of the Day

U . s . States Leader Obama utilizes a magnifier to experience a game title with children inside a pre-kindergarten class at school Levels early childhood learning center in Decatur Feb 14, 2013. Obama travelled to Georgia to push his intend to ensure high-quality preschool, revealed throughout his Condition from the Union address now. [REUTERS/Jason Reed]Obama high-fives children inside a pre-kindergarten class. [REUTERS/Jason Reed]LOVE.[Aside: Jason Reed—still my personal favorite news digital photographer. Love that guy!]

Bi-Monthly Fundraising Reminder & Thank-You

This really is, for individuals who've asked for it, your bi-monthly indication to give to Shakesville and/in order to make certain to resume monthly subscriptions which have lapsed.It's also an essential fundraising event to help keep Shakesville going.Running this strictly-moderated and independent space on donations instead of content-produced advertising, that is incompatible with safe spaces, implies that my capability to ensure that it stays going is dependent in your support.I am unable to afford to get this done full-here we are at free, but, even when I possibly could, fundraiser can also be probably the most feminist functions I actually do here. I request to become taken care of my work because progressive feminist advocacy has value.Women's service work, be it mothering, elder care, volunteering, philanthropy, social work, employment in almost any "pink collar" profession, or social advocacy, is seriously devalued, frequently to the stage where it's delinquent work altogether. So, despite the fact that fundraiser isn't fun for me personally, not doing the work is detrimental towards the work we all do here every single day. It's antifeminist.This web site began like a hobby, a component-time interest into that we could put just as much or very little time when i wanted. It isn't a spare time activity any longer it is a job. And over it thus is really a feminist act.You are able to donate once by clicking the "Create a Donation" button within the righthand sidebar, or generate a monthly subscription while using "Subscribe" button just beneath it, with a dropdown menu of subscription options—or go to the Donation page, for more options.If you'd prefer the information and/or community within this space, are able to afford it, and wish to see Shakesville continue being handled like a safe space, please consider establishing a regular membership or creating a one-time contribution.For those who have lately appreciated getting distilled news about politics, reproductive privileges, along with other news products taking part on view thread throughout the Condition from the Union the Fatsronauts 101 series having the ability to discuss facets of the rape culture inside a space thinking about taking apart that culture discovering where you can direct your teaspoon meant for social justice or towards inequality, I think you'll will, if you can, lead to aid this space and make certain it is constantly on the flourish.I think you'll will even consider the need for other things you appreciate at Shakesville, be it the moderation, video transcripts, Film Corner, the city in Open Threads, the blogarounds, Butch Pornstache, the Daily Dose of Cute, your blogmistress' penchant for inventing new words, or other things you like.I additionally want express gratitude, so greatly, to you both who gives or has contributed, whether monthly or like a one-off. I'm profoundly grateful—and I do not have a single cent as a given. I have not what to convey the depth of my appreciation, besides these: This community could not exist without that support, truly. Thanks.My never-ending appreciation too to everybody who adds towards the space in different ways: Thanks to the regular contributing factors, our other staff, our guest contributing factors, to anybody that has provided a transcription, to individuals who've associated with, cited, Tweeted about, and otherwise supportively suggested this web site, and/or to folks who've taken time to transmit me the periodic note of support and encouragement. This community could not exist without you, either.[Please Be Aware: I'm not seeking suggestions regarding how to raise revenue I'm requesting donations in return for the job of supplying valued content in as safe and accessible an area as you possibly can. I should also reiterate that I'm not going anybody to feel obliged to lead financially, particularly if cash is tight. Apart from pricing feminist work, another objective of fundraiser is really Iain and I haven't got to struggle with respect to your blog, and I'm not going other people to struggle themselves as a swap. There's a large enough audience that neither must have to occur.

One Billion Rising

[Content Note: Violence.]A few individuals have requested me basically have ideas on a single Billion Rising, that is an invite to 1 billion women "and individuals who love these to Go Out, DANCE, Rise, and DEMAND an finish" to violence against women.Zerlina's ideas here pretty much capture my very own:1 Billion Rising, whilst not perfect, comes with an attract me like a survivor of violence. Sure, dancing is not likely to prevent a guy from carrying out an action of violence, but there's something very effective about children and allies getting together to bop, because dancing generally is concerning the physical movement of your body. There's liberation for the reason that autonomy. ...To be sure with a few of the critiques of 1 Billion Rising, namely, it does not really address what causes violence against women, it really brings awareness. Clearly, getting awareness for an problem is essential, but it is not sufficient to be able to really solve the issue. Dancing is not likely to change rape culture, but when it can make a survivor be at liberty and in charge of her body, if perhaps for any couple of minutes today, dance on.And tell me when One Billion males are rising.That last bit might seem flippant, but particularly juxtaposed with Jess' publish, it is not.I do not personally feel linked to One Billion Rising like a survivor, however i am truly thrilled for anyone that do. I value awareness-raising, despite the fact that this specific event does not excite me should not whatsoever be construed to imply that I can not or don't be thankful has excited numerous of people that take presctiption my team, promoting against violence.So: What is your opinion? I am especially curious to listen to from Shakers with physical disabilities to limit the opportunity to dance about whether you are feeling One Billion Rising is broad enough in the invitation to become including individuals who might dance in a different way or can't dance whatsoever.[P.S. I can not stop hearing Tom Sturdy saying "The Billion Increases!" inside a Bane voice.]

Dallas Men to Rally Against Domestic Violence

by Jessica Luther, also known as scatx, who can be found at her very own blog, Speaker's Corner within the ATX, and blazing trails of righteous fury on Twitter.[Content Note: Discussion of domestic violence.]Just more than a year ago, Melissa authored a publish known as "Woman's Work," by which she spoken about how exactly misogynist anti-choicers rely on "the effective without any male dissension, which assists their erroneous belief that they're the 'objective' arbiters of womanhood." When straight cis males neglect to fight from the harm completed to all ladies (really, everybody who aren't straight cis males), that silence is taken as tacit condoning through the people doing harm. One thing that feminists and womanists frequently have to say is that things would change more quickly but for the better for everybody if more straight cis males could be vocal competitors to misogyny in most of their forms.I've what's promising about this front.Deep in the middle of my house condition of Texas, you will see an anti-domestic violence rally in Dallas the following month brought through the mayor from the city, Mike Rawlings. Who definitely are attending? The males of Dallas. Rawlings stated the 2009 week he needs 10,000 males to appear towards the rally. Are we able to pause for just one moment and allow that to sink in? 10,000 males.This can be a reaction to a string of high-profile domestic violence killings which have occurred within the city in recent days, such as the terrible situation of the guy who, following a lengthy good reputation for mistreating his wife, monitored her lower within the parking garage from the college where she labored and shot her to dying.Mayor Rawlings, under not much later in a press conference, particularly mentioned the sufferers of domestic violence aren't to blame and when things are likely to change, it's males who require to alter their behavior: "It's our fault. It isn't the women's fault. You want to allow it to be known that any violent act toward a lady won't be tolerated through the males within the city." At that time over time, he introduced he could be beginning a awareness campaign within the city "to alter a mans culture." Also, he demonstrated incredible belief within the males of Dallas and also the team of individuals he designated to guide the campaign saying, "They'll stand beside me in saying enough is sufficient. We'll reinforce that striking women isn't acceptable, and we'll learn to intervene whenever we view it happening."The very first major public event within this new campaign is going to be next month's rally. On Tuesday, Rawlings expressed that certain method to stop violence later on would be to train youthful boys that violence is unacceptable: "I would like fathers to create their sons. There's an intergenerational teaching moment here because, unquestionably, this can be a learned behavior."Has Rawlings been hearing feminists/womanists?For the time being, it's unclear what the next phase within the awareness campaign is going to be but Rawlings is unwavering if this involves who he's pointing the campaign at: "We are causeing this to be a grassroots movement. And we'll go to the city. Previously it has been seen like a women's problem, however it ain't. It's our problem."It's our problem.This really is radical.But: Until my pal Andrea Grimes e-mailed me the storyline from the approaching rally, I never heard just one factor relating to this. Thanks, Mayor Rawlings. Hopefully your energy turns into a model for other city leaders as well as for other males for this country.If you reside in Dallas or somewhere near by and also attend this rally, it'll occur at City Hall Plaza on March 23 at 10 a.m. "Sports athletes including Cowboys cornerback Brandon Carr and former Cowboy Troy Aikman intend to attend the rally, in addition to city leaders and spiritual leaders for example T.D. Jakes and Catholic bishop from the Dallas diocese Kevin Farrell."

Daily Dose of Cute

Ms. Olivia Twist, seem asleep.

In The News

[Content note: Misogyny, homophobia]Happy Valentime's Day!Moments ago, the Democratic-brought Senate passed legislation the very first time that will allow same-sex marriage in Illinois. The wedding equality measure now would go to the home. Yes!FreedomWorks produced a relevant video which includes a scene where a female intern putting on a panda suit models carrying out dental sex on Hillary Clinton. Ummmm .... whut?Republican (duh) Congressman Tim Huselskamp stated that Obama's presenting gay marriage to eliminate the household. Neat!Rhianna has canceled the rest of her U.S. tour after being identified with Synovitis along with a labral tear from the right stylish.Chubby Checker has filed a suit over a computer program named The Chubby Checker which estimations how big your penis according to his shoe size.Footwear for that Satan worshipper inside your existence. m/37 U.S. senators are contacting Leader Obama to sign a professional order barring federal companies from discriminating against LGBT employees.Watch Johnny Marr play "Paradise Knows I am Miserable Now" the very first time in twenty five years.

Wednesday Blogaround

This blogaround introduced for you by the envelopes.Suggested Reading through:Resistance: RIP Keiko Fukuda, 1913-2013 [Longtime visitors may recall that Lauredhel shared a guest publish on Keiko Fukuda at Shakesville in November 2009.]Jessica: Practical Feminism with Nihal Saad Zaghloultressiemc: Rationalization of Greater Education: We are All Bureaucrats NowFMF News: Brown College Includes Transgender Students in Health PlanCora: A Minimum Of 20 CIA Criminals Still MissingJorge: [content note: violent racism] "Illegal Immigrant Hunting Permit" Peel off stickers Offered in Colorado Gas StationsLaura: Meet Piper, the main one-Eyed Bulldog with a love for PaintingJay Smooth: [video] Haters Don't Die, They Multiply (Return from the Little Hater)And when you need to hear what Ted Nugent needed to say concerning the SOTU, Andy's got video here.Leave your links and proposals in comments...

Photo of the Day

In the Telegraph's Pictures during the day for 11 Feb 2013: Traffic involves a dead stop as two lions choose to roll around in the center of a road around the fringe of the Nairobi National Park in Kenya. Individuals viewed 10-minute display prior to the lions left the street. [Gareth Johnson / Barcroft Media]It's prefer scratch-pad ever!

Open Thread

Located with a Scaup Duck.

2FA, #15

Fatsronauts 101

Fatsronauts 101 is really a series by which I address presumptions and stereotypes about body fat people who treat us like a monolith and are utilized to dehumanize and marginalize us. If there's a stereotype you would like me to deal with, message me.[Content Note: Body fat prejudice body regulating.]#18: You are able to identify body fat individuals health problems by searching their way.No.I type of wish to just let it rest at this, ahem, however i feel obliged to notice that even this myth has embedded there another myth—that all body fat people should have health issues. Which: Also no.As well as whenever a body fat person includes a visible health insurance andOror mobility problem, it's, when i have seen many occasions formerly, bad math to axiomatically presume the problem is triggered by body fat. Sometimes they're unrelated. Sometimes, in instances where they're related, putting on weight might have been due to the health insurance andOror mobility problem, instead of the other way round.Whenever you consider a body fat person, all you are able fairly conclude about the subject is they are body fat.Other things is prejudice.-------------------------Formerly:#17: Body fat individuals options will always be determined by their body fat.#16: You're helping body fat people by shaming them.#15: Body fat people hate getting their pictures taken.#14: All body fat individuals are unhealthy.#13: Body fat people looooooooooove Twinkies!#12: Body fat individuals don't like/need to see media representations of themselves.#11: Nobody wants to become body fat.#10: Body fat people need intervene within their lives. #9: Body fat individuals don't understand how they appear.Number8: Body fat individuals don't deserve anything nice.#7: Body fat individuals are permission slips for thin individuals to eat what they need.Number6: Any body fat person eating a salad or working out is attempting to slim down.#5: Body fat is axiomatically ugly.#4: Body fat people eat large numbers of food.#3: Body fat individuals are jolly/mean, and body fat individuals are shy/noisy.#2: I will tell how one eats constantly, due to the way they eat around me.#1: Everybody who's body fat is body fat for the similar reason.

Good Riddance

[Content Note: Violence homophobia racism.]FMF News: "An amendment towards the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) suggested by Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-IA) unsuccessful yesterday on the 65 to 34 Senate election. The suggested amendment might have removed protections for LGBT sufferers of domestic violence, permit new limitations on U visas provided to immigrant sufferers of domestic violence, avoided tribal courts from defending non-Native accused who're charged with attacking Native women on tribal lands, and would even get rid of the language 'woman' in the biggest grant program within VAWA."Essentially, Grassley's amendment desired to remove everything that Republicans accustomed to justify obstructing the reauthorization of VAWA, protections which Republican Senator Shaun Periods accused Dems of contributing to the legislation particularly therefore the GOP would resist them.Fundamental essentials great minds [sic] from the modern Republican Party: Unilaterally in opposition to safeguarding vulnerable people from domestic violence and abuse, and thus profoundly taken off good belief they assume anybody who supports safeguarding vulnerable people from domestic violence is just doing the work to ensure they are look bad.

Open Thread

Located by Duck Amuck.

Hillary Clinton Says Goodbye

I apologize it has been postponed by my absence, however i figured I'd share it now, just in case anybody skipped it and thus there exists a opportunity to discuss it...4 years ago, Hillary Clinton showed up in the Condition Department to cheers and applause. Even today, I am unable to watch that video without getting clogged up. It had been this type of momentous occasion, and not simply since it was Hillary Clinton, and not simply since it am significant that they have been offered coupled with recognized a prominent role within the Federal government, but since it would be a marked finish towards the Rose bush administration's condition guidelines, which treated diplomacy just like a dirty word. I recall, of all the emotions I'd on that day, a feeling of overwhelming relief. I understood Clinton's tenure wouldn't be perfect, which she was always likely to be more hawkish than I'll be, but we went from the foreign policy of belligerent aggression and black-and-whitened thinking to some foreign policy formed by nuance and good belief, also it mattered.Last Friday, Hillary Clinton left the Condition Department, and she or he went exactly the same way she arrived: Towards the seem of cheers and applause.[Full transcript here.]I understand the world we are attempting to help bring into being these days may have many difficult days, however i am more positive today than I had been after i was here 4 years ago, because I've come across, next day of day, the numerous contributions our diplomats and development experts are earning to assist make sure that this century offers the type of peace, progress, and wealth that does not only the U . s . States, but the whole world, especially youthful people, so highly deserve. I'm very proud to possess been Secretary of Condition.I'll miss you.Appreciate your merchandise, Secretary Clinton.

TV Corner

There is no new Parks and Rec last evening (WHUT?! BOO!), so no Parks and Rec thread. (Awwwwwww!) Rather, this is a general thread to discuss what you are watching, what Television shows (scripted or reality/competition) you are loving, what you are not loving, what you'd recommend to look at, and just what you'd recommend to prevent.Make sure you make sure warn about spoilers, as needed!Have in internet marketing.

TV Corner

There is no new Parks and Rec last evening (WHUT?! BOO!), so no Parks and Rec thread. (Awwwwwww!) Rather, this is a general thread to discuss what you are watching, what Television shows (scripted or reality/competition) you are loving, what you are not loving, what you'd recommend to look at, and just what you'd recommend to prevent.Make sure you make sure warn about spoilers, as needed!Have in internet marketing.

Photo of the Day

[Click to embiggen.]In the Telegraph's Pictures during the day for 31 The month of january 2013: A nearly full-circle rainbow at Victoria Falls taken by Nicole Cambre around the Zambian side from the falls. [Nicole Cambre / Rex Features]Lovely.

In The News

[Content note: Gun violence, gun culture, homophobia]Torsdag Nyheter:Standoff drags into its third day like a responsible gun owner holds a boy hostage in the subterranean bunker.Also: A district attorney was gunned lower outdoors a Texas courthouse. One suspect is thought to become sensibly putting on a bullet-proof vest.Girl Energy! "Youthful women are reporting in why AR-15 weapons are their weapon of preference." Fatboy Slim: "Weapon Of Preference"The Andrews Sisters' last making it through member has died. An earthquake of magnitude 6. struck from the coast of Alaska.Marriage equality enemies are afflicted by fundraiser shortfall. Whoops!The gay dog continues to be saved. Yay!Conservatives are starting a Facebook alternative, "without all of the limitations". Neat!

Photo of the Day